On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 15:41 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> Alas the thing J2EE has really done is to cause a whole generation of
> programmers to consider SQL as nothing more than a persistent object
> store. Things like triggers, stored procedures for enforcing business
> logic, etc all evoke blank stares these days (PHP is probably more to
> blame for this, though). If we treat SQL as the model, or a model, in
> some cases rather than treating persistent objects as our model, there
> is a lot of power and flexibility (not to mention consistency) brought
> to bear on a problem.
(Of course my post really illustrates that most of us non-J2EE
programmers don't distinguish properly between J2EE and the java bean
thing--my apologies!)